This Here Is Bobby Timmons (Remastered 2026) Bobby Timmons

• 1 This Here (Remastered 2026) 03:32
• 2 Moanin' (Remastered 2026) 05:08
• 3 Lush Life (Remastered 2026) 02:29
• 4 The Party's Over (Remastered 2026) 04:11
• 5 Prelude To A Kiss (Remastered 2026) 03:24
• 6 Dat Dere (Remastered 2026) 05:25
• 7 My Funny Valentine (Remastered 2026) 05:08
• 8 Come Rain Or Come Shine (Remastered 2026) 04:33
• 9 Joy Ride (Remastered 2026) 03:58
• Total Runtime 37:48

Info for This Here Is Bobby Timmons (Remastered 2026)

Newly remastered! American Jazz pianist Bobby Timmons originally released This Here Is Bobby Timmons as his debut album as leader in 1960 on the Riverside label. Containing 9 hard bop cuts the album features Sam Cobb on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums and is produced by Orrin Keepnews.

Bobby Timmons was one of the leading exponents of the funky school of jazz piano, who also contributed heavily to the so-called soul movement with his three hit compositions: Moanin, This Here, and Dat Dere, all part of his first album, This Here Is Bobby Timmons. But he was much more than that.

Bobby Timmons, piano
Sam Jones, double bass (except track 3)
Jimmy Cobb, drums (except track 3)

Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on January 13 & 14, 1960

Digitally remastered

Please Note: we do not offer the 192kHz version of this album, because our analysis clearly showed, that the 192kHz does not reach a frequency spectrum, that would justify to offer 192kHz. Hence we offer the 96kHz version.

Bobby Timmons (1935-1974)
became famous for his funky piano solos and for his ability to write catchy songs. He was actually a well-rounded pianist who was more versatile than many thought.

Timmons was part of the Philadelphia jazz scene before moving to New York in the mid-1950s. He worked with Kenny Dorham, Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, and the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra. Timmons’s abilities helped two important bands to catch on. While with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1958-1960) he contributed “Moanin’,” and when he was a member of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1959-1960), Timmons’s songs “This Here” and “Dat Dere” became quite popular.

Timmons, who began leading his own trios in 1961 but never quite achieved the commercial success of his former bosses, recorded for Riverside, Prestige, and Milestone during 1960-1968. This Here Is Bobby Timmons is a brilliant set in which he takes “Lush Life” unaccompanied and interprets trio versions of his three hits, a newer song in “Joy Ride,” and four standards with bassist Sam Jones and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Soul Time teams the pianist with Jones and drummer Art Blakey; best of his new songs are “So Tired.” Easy Does It is a trio outing with Jones and drummer Cobb that includes fine versions of “Old Devil Moon” and “Groovin’ High.” Other trio sessions include In Person, Sweet and Soulful Sounds, Born to Be Blue, From the Bottom, and, quite logically, The Prestige Trio Sessions.

1966’s Workin’ Out shows that Timmons had continued to advance beyond his original image as jazz’s funkiest pianist. In a pair of quartets with either vibraphonist Johnny Lytle or tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, he plays more adventurous material than expected (including Shorter’s “Tom Thumb”) and shows that he could be creative in post-bop. During Quartets and Orchestra, which often teams him with guitarist Joe Beck in a quartet in addition to a larger group with voices arranged by Tom McIntosh, Timmons was clearly looking ahead.

Unfortunately Bobby Timmons lived to be only 38, but his musical legacy is quite rich.

This album contains no booklet.